Professor Jen Ross

Professor of Digital Culture and Education Futures

I am Centre co-director (Digital Cultures), and Associate Dean (Research Cultures) in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. In the Edinburgh Futures Institute, I am co-director of the MSc in Education Futures. I also teach on the MSc in Digital Education, and I am a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy. My research interests include education and cultural heritage futures, speculative methods, online distance education, digital cultural heritage learning, open education and digital cultures. I supervise masters and PhD students in these and related areas.

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New project: Infrastructure Futures for Digital Cultural Heritage

Funded by the Creative Informatics AHRC Creative Cluster programme, this project imagines possible futures for Digital Cultural Heritage infrastructure given current conversations regarding audience, resourcing, governance, and stages of technological development.

Graduation: MSc Education Futures

On Friday 1 December, the first cohort of students graduated from the MSc in Education Futures, which is offered through the Edinburgh Futures Institute

Projects

AI futures for Scottish education

AI Futures for Scottish education addresses an urgent need to address the rapid emergence of generative AI technologies, and to consider the ethical and educational issues raised as teachers and students experiment with its capabilities

Infrastructure Futures for Digital Cultural Heritage

What do we mean when we talk about infrastructure for Digital Cultural Heritage research? How can we get a better understanding of current priorities, concerns and hopes by imagining and collectively scrutinising possibilities for the future?